Quotes About Communication

Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.

to make him pay you for your product, you must make it pay him to read about it.

Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

I never ignore the phone because it could be a war breaking out or an earthquake.

Displacement and discreteness are two fundamental properties that distinguish human language from the communication systems of birds and other animals.

However, the natural sounds and gestures produced by all non-human primates are highly stereotyped and limited in the type and number of messages they convey, consisting mainly of emotional responses to particular situations. They have no way of expressing the anger they felt yesterday or the anticipation of tomorrow.

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I notice that many people trust the written word more than the spoken word.

If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become so loud that each night I fold them into origamic cigarettes and smoke them so they'll blow away.

That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.

It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at dinner.

It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at diner.

charmed the words out of

What a pity, I reflected, that honesty in human relations is so rarely possible. We are compelled to approach, circle and retreat as though performing the steps of a complicated dance, neither trusting the appearance of truth not daring to speak it.

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us.

Beauty without expression tires.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.